A little late today

I was down in Alexandria for a workshop at HR Magazine (they tolerated me pretty well), and what with the MARC and Metro travel, I didn’t have time to advise you this morning about the weekly word and the weekly joke video.

And in completely unrelated news, as I left Penn Station this afternoon, I thought that “Male/Female” looked to be in fine fettle. “Male/Female” is on Twitter now as @manwomanstatue, if you’d care to become a follower.

Over at Meta Talk, there is considerable lack of enthusiasm for strictures against holiday cliches. The lack of originality in the playground invective there—you might observe the regular recurrence of “Grinch” and “Scrooge”—reinforces the impression that people with impaired imagination resort to them.

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John McIntyre, mild-mannered editor for a great metropolitan newspaper, has fussed over writers’ work, to sporadic expressions of gratitude, for thirty years. He is The Sun’s night content production manager and former head of its copy desk. He also teaches editing at Loyola University Maryland. A former president of the American Copy Editors Society, a native of Kentucky, a graduate of Michigan State and Syracuse, and a moderate prescriptivist, he writes about language, journalism, and arbitrarily chosen topics. If you are inspired by a spirit of contradiction, comment on the posts or write to him at john.mcintyre@baltsun.com.